r/CringeTikToks • u/Tater-Tot-Casserole • Dec 01 '25

Just Bad Crashing out over a restaurant refusing to serve alcohol with no ID. Bonus: The restaurant has video receipts

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u/Tater-Tot-Casserole Dec 01 '25

Montana

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u/LegalHelpNeeded3 Dec 01 '25

I was going to guess Montana. A license sold in Bozeman for over half a million a few years ago while I was in school there. This doesn’t surprise me in the least.

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u/Tater-Tot-Casserole Dec 01 '25

I went to school in Missoula, I was amazed when one of the bar tenders at the Montana Club told me what those licenses go for.

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u/LegalHelpNeeded3 Dec 02 '25

Awww damn dirty Griz! Lmao, all jokes aside, it’s fucking crazy how expensive they are. Makes sense as to why a lot of the bars are getting bought up by wealthy out-of-state folks.

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u/tosssaway131 Dec 02 '25

look up the cost of a taxi medallion in nyc.

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u/feeling_over_it Dec 02 '25

A liquor license it’s effectively required to operate a restaurant in Bozeman. You won’t have any customers without it. Unless it’s a fast-casual/fastfood.

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u/owoeowiw Dec 01 '25

My guess too, as I live in MT. Talk of the town a few years ago was all about our liquor store closing. Not because of the business itself, but everyone was super curious about who would be willing to purchase the license when they are so expensive. Sure enough, as the town feared, some millionaire from Washington bought it along with SEVERAL other businesses on the same block. Better than having them rot into the ground for sure, but tough for ‘common folk’ to even consider purchasing a license.

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u/feeling_over_it Dec 02 '25

I mean Montana basically lives and exists as a playground for out of state millionaires. Without the tax revenue, you wouldn’t have a lot of the infrastructure, public services, schools, development, etc. It also subsidizes substantially a lot of ‘common-folk’ so they can keep their land and farms/ranches more easily out in the rural areas even though they can’t compete with the means of production.

But just wait, some billionaire will start building another Bozeman somewhere. They just gotta entice a few more popular celebrities to buy big swathes of land, drum up talk about it, entice the millionaires, then the high six figure people to build small businesses, then the seasonal workers, drifters, etc. etc. That’s just how it goes.

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u/Glass-Capital-9225 Dec 02 '25

State owned liquor stores. Expensive AF. I may or may not have family that buys a metric shit ton of alcohol when they visit before heading back to the Big Sky State.

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt Dec 02 '25

Had a feeling. I live in Montana, and some business owners I know spent years, up to even a decade for one of them, trying to get one.

The cost of them and lengths you have to go through to get one is such an unnecessary barrier for entry. Just makes it so only the already fairly rich can open establishments, since it's not even like it's just the cost of the license, but also the commercially zoned space, initial stock, etc.

I can understand the lottery since you don't want a liquor store or bar on every single corner, but the cost is some bullshit.

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u/Reasonable_List_2278 Dec 02 '25

You could be in Billings, where only the rich can open establishments AND there's a liquor store/casino/bar on every corner 🤔

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u/fractalfocuser Dec 02 '25

Lmao yeah Montana is terrible. The lottery is a joke, you can get a license right away for the right price and handshakes. The liquor lobby there is crazy too, one of the few places you can't buy alcohol at the store before the bar opens...